skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intro seems to imply the author doesn't want to engage in survivorship bias. Have they carried any work out to ascertain whether this is a net benefit to society or whether these rules and regs actually are the net benefit?
My application [0] I used daily for 13 years stores the data in localStorage and I had several unpleasant data loss incidents - mostly me cleaning storage of the wrong browser tab. Thankfully, a simple JSON dump/import feature enables a good enough degree of reliability. Thanks to it, I didn't lose any data in 5 years, but now I have a questionable habit where I defensively export data before every major edit or deployment.

Simple localStorage replication has been an interest of mine for many years and I explore available solutions multiple times a year, but none of these ticks all the boxes - no server to maintain; free; optional for users; bring your own storage; the app stays a web page; cross-browser. I wish browsers had a file system API that allowed the app to read/write to specified directory or a file in background, which users may sync with their tool of choice, like Google Drive.

[0] https://github.com/Klaster1/timer-5
That would be encapsulation, not abstraction.
Russia under the tzar was imperialistic, Russia under communism was imperialistic, why is it extraordinary to believe Russia under Putin is imperialistic? Especially given what it did in Georgia Ukrain and Belarus etc.
What government agencies think matters because they outline what's legal and what's not, and that in turn dictates what ends up in your food or not. If the government agencies are wrong, you can end up slowly being poisoned. A 250,000 times gap is the difference between one milligram and a quarter of a kilogram.
> Almost every single one of the foods we tested are within both US FDA and EU EFSA regulations.

So the next logical question is: are those standards at reasonable levels? Is the food actually unsafe, or are we just really good at detecting those contaminants now?

> Hot foods which spend 45 minutes in takeout containers have 34% higher levels of plastic chemicals than the same dishes tested directly from the restaurant.

I thought it would make much more of a difference, honestly.
Dunno, but it reminds me to some lyrics from a Despacito science parody you might find amusing, which touches on snakes' additional vertebra, and also "Sonic" which might be an oblique reference I didn't catch before.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk
According to Irvin D. Yalom, “One of our major tasks is to invent a meaning sturdy enough to support a life and to perform the tricky maneuver of denying our personal authorship of this meaning”.¹

Yalom considers that “The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it; the rational questions one can pose about meaning will always outlast the answers. In therapy, as in life, meaningfulness is a by-product of engagement and commitment, and that is where therapists must direct their efforts — not that engagement provides the rational answer to questions of meaning, but it causes these questions not to matter”.²

For Frankl, best-known for his psychological memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, meaning comes from three possible sources: purposeful work, love, and courage in the face of difficulty.³

Ernest Becker’s book The Birth and Death of Meaning asks the question, “Where does meaning come from?” The short answer is: meaning comes from culture – our lives feel most meaningful when we believe we are participating successfully in the cultural hero-system, and we measure the success of our performance through social affirmation. Culture prescribes the roles, how well we execute the roles creates feelings of meaning and self-worth, and we assess the success of our execution by way of positive social regard.⁴ For a long time, the cultural hero-system came from religion, and according to Becker “The crisis of society is, of course, the crisis of organized religion too: religion is no longer valid as a hero system, and so the youth scorn it. If traditional culture is discredited as heroics, then the church that supports that culture automatically discredits itself. If the church, on the other hand, chooses to insist on its own special heroics, it might find that in crucial ways it must work against the culture, recruit youth to be anti-heroes to the ways of life of the society they live in. This is the dilemma of religion in our time”.⁵

I don't think that meaning can arise solely from an intellectual pursuit. It comes from a blend of experience and emotional engagement. In The Developing Mind, Daniel Siegel declares, “The way the mind establishes meaning is closely linked to social interactions and both meaning making and relationships appear to be mediated via the same neural circuits responsible for initiating emotional processes”.⁶

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8768078-we-humans-appear-to...

[2] https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/28/loves-executioner-...

[3] https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/26/viktor-frankl-mans...

[4] https://www.themortalatheist.com/blog/the-birth-and-death-of...

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7577300-and-the-crisis-of-s...

[6] https://psychologyfanatic.com/meaning-of-life/
It took less than a day to determine it was Russia and not only that but this specific ship that cut the cable. Yet years after the largest industrial sabotage and environmental disaster in recent memory (Nord Stream 2) absolutely no investigations into who caused that one and that story has been completely forgotten
I think I will try this though I'm not sure I have the patience to try it for 2 months before seeing any results. Hopefully I will see some benefit before then.

If the theory is correct that the peristaltic and sphincter muscles need to be worked harder then I wonder weather it makes more sense to do this while drinking rather than while eating. It should be significantly harder for your muscles to work against gravity when "pushing water uphill" than when pushing solids. I wonder if the simple cure for hiccups (bending over and then swallowing water) could work here.
So you run a bookkeeping company, yet your wife is using a competitor?
It is for Taiwan
I use this feature a lot. I noticed a month or two ago that it started requiring way more authentication than it did at release, and then it went back to normal a few weeks later. I wonder if that was while they were fixing whatever vulnerabilities this research might have discovered
Turkish "monitors" had _their own keyboards_ if the article is to be believed. Nobody foreign would be anywhere near any real spy equipment, let alone someone from a NATO member country, whether "mercenary" or not. It just doesn't make any sense.
> allows my program to easily work against multiple sql databases

How many times have you required that your program runs against different sql databases without modification?

I mean, how many times have you required your plane to be able to fly in the different atmospheres of different planets of the Solar System?

Unless you are NASA, I suggest you cut the complexity and just make a plane that can fly well on Earth's atmosphere.
As I recall, JCRI does know the identity of each author.
By this logic compiling free software on Windows is an "unacceptable cost" even though it allows people to become accustomed with free software programs and make the transition to a FOSS OS much easier
There is a massive difference between belief and fact, and I would expect someone on this forum to know that. If you don't have a source, and you can't find one, then please make clear in your comment that that's your belief, not a fact. This goes for the OP, too
This is an odd complaint. It’s not a waste of anything to update a record on an official document. Indeed, it’s more frustrating when they don’t because now I can’t see my full travel history by looking at my passport. Yes that exists somewhere in a DB but I don’t have access to that.
I'm living with my partner and her brother and family and another family who are friends of ours in a house (which has three apartments). We moved there to live together (and continued to work remotely or found work elsewhere). Six adults, six children. It's an absolute treat. I can't imagine going back to a nuclear family setup. Living in a larger web with more support from all sides (both for adults and children) is just amazing.

And of course it's often not possible or easy to do this.
There is no logic in your statement. If you are even considering something done by Ukraine to be a starting point of these actions then you would have to consider Russia as the initiator of all of this, since, you know they started the war and are constantly destroying Ukrainian infrastructure. Thus, if you were a man of reason, you either wouldn't written something as stupid or you would have written "After the countless committed by Russia?".
The EU will stop stamping passports some time next year, assuming the new system isn't further delayed.
The GSM SIM cards, by design, can be remotely updated to do whatever the service provider wants (or asked "nicely", or paid to do).

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...
If you paid with a credit card, consider filing a chargeback.
Officials are becoming more and more alert to these kinds of situations.

Newnew Polar Bear managed to escape the scene of the crime without any issues, Yi Peng 3 managed to escape the scene of the crime but was later detained in international waters but not boarded without Chinese officials, and now Eagle S was caught red-handed and boarded immediately.
Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk's effort to block OpenAI's for-profit transition
I use GrapheneOS, and wouldn't have it any other way, but its prolonged existence depends on Google not making any asshole moves in their next Pixels, and on the (highly appreciated) efforts of a few dedicated individuals.

And like Linux on the desktop: it offers a better experience for everyone who either has the knowledge to step off the beaten path, or has someone who supports them. But that is just a few percent of people. The rest gets what market forces dictate.
The lasers generating the signal are not perfect and generate a Gaussian-like profile of wavelengths, albeit narrow.

In this experiment[1] they sent single photons alongside the classical data:

Alice’s qubit is then encoded onto the horizontal (H) and vertical (V ) components of the heralded photon’s polarization |ψ〉A = α|H〉 + β|V 〉using polarization waveplates.

This photon is then multiplexed using an O-band/C-band WDM to co-propagate with the 400-Gbps C-band classical signal over 15.2 km of spooled optical fiber (SMF-28(R) ULL) to Charlie.

To prevent the detection of C-band photons due to insufficient filter isolation, we cascade two cascaded O-band/C-band WDMs before the FBGs and a 1290-nm DWDM to achieve >190 dB rejection of C-band light.

WDM = wavelength division multiplexer, FBG = fiber Bragg grating[2].

If it was just a distraction, why did they bother adding 190+ dB of filter rejection?

[1]: https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-11-12-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Bragg_grating
What? No investigation? This is pretty close to the top of the Wikipedia article on the matter:

The Swedish and Danish investigations were closed in February 2024 without identifying those responsible,[16][17] but the German investigation is still ongoing.[18] In August 2024 media reported that in June German authorities issued a European arrest warrant for a Ukrainian national suspected of having used the sailing yacht Andromeda together with two others to sabotage the Nord Stream pipeline.[19] As of June 2024 the suspect is still at large, having reportedly left the EU for Ukraine.[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_pipelines_sabotage
Not gonna lie, the meat I had in some European countries without preservatives and processing went through me so cleanly and easy I’m convinced we are the ones dropping the ball in this whole discussion somehow.
Russia annoying both Finland and Estonia may be unwise. Look at the geography.
There's only 20km of water between Helsinki and Tallinn.
If those countries act together they can cut off sea access to St. Petersburg.
Or just slow things down by inspecting every ship for cable-cutting capability.
NATO has already stepped up patrols in the Baltic Sea.[1]

Right now, Russia doesn't have all that much military capability near St. Petersburg.[2]
Some units are off at the Ukraine war. The Baltic Fleet is weaker than ever.

There's a "Free Ingria" movement that wants to make all of Leningrad Oblast a separate country. It's not going anywhere without outside support. It might get some.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/finland-estonia-cable-undersea-ru...

[2] https://gfsis.org.ge/maps/russian-military-forces
> Fish are aggregators of this stuff so that's not surprising.

I doubt the BPA in fish originates from the fish themselves. It's more likely from the can linings used to package the fish.
> i dont think finding a place in city like SF should be considered long odds lol

To rent or to buy? Because those are vastly different things in today’s economy. Rent, sure - you can find one. Buying? You need 250K+ saved and jobs that lets you pay 8K/mo for at least 10 years.

But I do agree that people in areas with high RE who own a home and two cars shouldn’t be included in the poor category. That’s easily 1M in assets.
> In unrelated news - SystemD now tries to convince people that having file-based logs is deprecated. And in few short years we will have Linux “administrators” who don’t know how to use grep(1).

This is so in-character, railing about how everything is awful nowadays, then some drive-by ranting in the general direction of a popular target like SystemD. I wonder how this guy can justify the use of CSS and an image on their web page.
The LLMs themselves aren't the fundamental concern; rather, they represent an unprecedented amplification of existing socioeconomic stratification mechanisms. They will likely accelerate the already problematic concentration of capital and opportunity among those positioned to leverage them - and we will see, inevitably, a continuation and intensification of patterns we've observed since the dawn of industrialization.

> if LLMs were really that miraculous, we wouldn't have such detractors

I don't think you thought this through.
I was just observing that Ukraine committed a blatant and extremely serious act of sabotage against European infrastructure- most probably with the help of the US. You can't be indignant for one sabotage and ignore the other.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions- otherwise you get into an endless spiral of "I did that just because you did the other thing first, so it's ultimately your fault".
Why is there an identity check for a domestic flight anyway?
Interesting, I suppose their practices have changed because in the past youtube/google absolutely stonewalled me.
Ah, I didn’t catch that. My apologies for not catching that when reading their comments. EU does have far better consumer protection for renters.
Well, isn't it because there is threat for a nuclear war, and we should watch out the fight doesn't escalate?
This research by these non academic background folks is simply astounding and exceptional. How did they get the funding to run $500k of independent lab testing? Can we donate to the cause?

This stuff is on my mind all the time eating out or from plastic-impregnated cardboard food packaging lining, etc. I’m worried about reproductive impact on future generations and overall personal health, etc.
>Give Ukraine a couple hundred longer-range missiles

while it would make a lot of pain to Russia, it wouldn't change the strategic situation. Russia is ok with taking the pain (more precisely Putin and his ilk are ok with subjecting Russia to the pain)

You need strategic hits, a knock-out, making it physically impossible for them to continue as it is the only language they currently understand. So, for example, Russia has like 10K of S-300/400 missiles. That is key part of the strategic defense of Russia (notice how Russia recently had a hysteric meltdown when just one drone hit their strategic defense radar thus slightly impacting their defense against ICBMs/etc. and also notice that just a drone was able to hit such a valuable target) Ukraine can build several thousands of large drones (cheap, simple, like say German V-1, can be built for less than $5000 each including modern navigation, Germans built 20K of V-1 in year in just one factory inside the mountain) and fire them to the targets in Russia choosing routes, altitudes and targets such that Russia would have to use S-300/400 instead of say shorter range BUK/Tor/Pantsir (Russia is big and most of the coverage is naturally by the S-300/400). After several thousands of such drones Russia would be put into impossible situation - either to let those large drones (original V-1 had 850kg warhead, ie. double that of Tomahawk/Storm Shadow/SCALP) fly and hit the targets or to run out of strategic air defense.
This is overstating it. The actual stated posture is brazen enough not to need exaggeration, stated eg in this 2022 speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_concerning_the_events_... and the historical background written about here: https://theconversation.com/how-moscow-has-long-used-the-his...

(Soviet union included more states, like the stans)
This is just so cool, all the best for your launch!!
What's the point of doing something like this?

Its not very sneaky, they got caught rather easily.

The damage is annoying, but deep sea cables have problems from time to time, its not like it created critical downtime or is unrepairable damage.

Is this just russia trying to give some sort of warning? A sort of, you have lots of exposed infrastructure, if you keep calling my bluff i might start going after it for real-zies?
Why aren't pirates and saboteurs hanged? If certain nation states are intent on returning to past, might as well indulge them.
What happens if I loose my phone while travelling? Stolen, smashed, broken, exploded like Samsung?
exactly, and you can graphically watch the effect in image generators that do not only behave, in my experience, in a non-deterministic way, but chaotically in the sense that any small change to the input prompt can cause arbitrary changes in the output picture
Why until then? Print in any case. It is an excellent way to have all of your important travel documents separate from your smartphone. Use you smartphone as the backup, not the other way around.
Ukrainian shotgun-armed drones shoot down other drones
> Think of a thin wrapper over a function, one that adds no behavior but adds an extra layer to navigate. You've surely encountered these—classes, methods, or interfaces that merely pass data around, making the system more difficult to trace, debug, and understand. These aren't abstractions; they're just layers of indirection.

“No added behaviour” wrapper functions add a lot of value, when done right.

First off, they’re a good name away from separating what you’re doing from how you’re doing it.

Second, they’re often part of a set. E.g. using a vector for a stack, push(x) can be just a call to append(x), but pop() needs to both read and delete the end of the vector. Push in isolation looks like useless indirection, but push/pop as a pair are a useful abstraction.

A consequence of adding these two points together is that, if you have a good abstraction, and you have a good implementation that maps well to the abstraction, it looks like useless indirection.

Another consequence is that those pass-through wrapper functions tell you how I think the implementation maps to the domain logic. In the presence of a bug, it helps you determine whether I got the sequence of steps wrong, or got the implementation wrong for one of the steps.

Ultimately, the two aren’t completely independent —indirection is one of the tools we have available to us to build abstractions with. Yes, people misuse it, and abuse it, and we should be more careful with it in general. But it’s still a damned useful tool.
These articles both demonstrate Putin's desire to restore historical Russian boundaries. He usually references the Empire rather than the USSR.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68606
Or if the service provider is served a warrant, or if they're hacked.
Your mean strong evidence like if Russia started invading and annexing its former-USSR neighbors?

Or perhaps you're confusing "clear" with "explicit": Consider a mob-boss surrounded by associates, casually observing into the air that "Example Ezio needs a fitting for concrete overshoes since I expect he'll be sleeping with the fishes."
It's the maximum Russia can do without direct NATO repercussions basically.

If they could kill a top european politician, they would have done it already. What protects against that is NATO firepower.
Slowly escalate without anything happening when people get used to it.
I love this! I have a collection of "Console Screen Savers and Wrapper" as well as console games: http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun
I know, and they can be hacked too through sms messages.

But the sim card doesn't have access to the car telemetry. Probably even the whole baseband module doesn't. It just gets that data to transmit when an accident happens.

The worst you could do by hacking the SIM is to make the modem send nearby cell data somewhere. Which is serious enough because the rough location can be derived from it. But it's a far cry from what these manufacturers collect.
So if everyone is responsible for their own actions, why are you including Ukraine in this context? After all this is in isolation Russia committing (yet another) crime.

You are the one picking and choosing here.
Yes, abstraction and modularity are coincident but distinct topics, and my last paragraph implies that I am equating those two things. Good point.

I disagree that considering a text file as a set of lines really qualifies as an abstraction; it's just a different representation of the data - you could instead choose to use a list of words or a tree or whatever. An abstraction is a general interface to a concrete thing that allows you to substitute different but similar concrete things without changing the consumer of those things. The Linux filesystem is a great example - I can 'cat' basically anything that has a path, and some driver will pull data from the associated endpoint and display the data on screen. "File" is the abstraction, and consumers of files need not care about the specifics of communicating with the underlying devices. Such a system is also modular, but it's hard not to be when your abstraction is well conceived.

Perhaps we're saying the same thing with different words?
Symbols are dynamic, not static. And uninterned symbols exist.

You could say that it's a global (per package) weak hash table, from my understanding.
It is similar for BLE. I recently wrote firmware for nrf52 device. Proprietary blob was 100 KB. My code was 60 KB and actually like 40-50 KB was caused by crypto library which is basically required part of BLE stack as well, just distributed with code and not in the blob.
This opens a download dialog for me rather that render the html (in firefox on android)
Unified Storage for Observability- GreptimeDB's Approach
They openly say it on their own state TV. They don't hide it in any way.
There are many parts on a ship of that size which need power and are critical for safety. That is not comparable to leisure craft.
Accepting T&C is for covering their asses, not data protection. Smells like bullshit excuse.
One of the last slides:

Lessons learned?

Lawsuits are temporary, glory is forever.

Go public.
> Everyone is responsible for their own actions- otherwise you get into an endless spiral of "I did that just because you did the other thing first, so it's ultimately your fault".

Why are you then mentioning Ukraine in this context if not to send us into this endless spiral?